Improvement in script printing-type



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HORATIO J. HEWITT, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN SCRIPT PRINTINGHTYPE.

`Speciliotition forming 'part of Letters Patent No. 50,245, dated October 3, 1865.

To all whom t may concern.-

` Be it -known that I, HonA'rlo J. HEWLTT,

of Brooklyn', Kings county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Script Printing'Type; and I do hereby declare the saine is fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompanying' drawings, ot' which- Figure 1 is n side elevation of one ofmy iniproved type on an enlarged scale; Fig. 2, a front elevation; Fig. 3, un end view of snnie. Fig.4represents several of my improved type in position, with the recess in iront ot e type filled up by the corresponding round or swell.

on the next succeeding type, &c. Fig. 5 is a modification of Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is u. side eleva.- tion of one of the ordinary type in general use; Fig. 7, n front elevation; Fig. 8, an end View; Fig. 9, a specimen printofmyiniproved type, und Fig. 10 a. print from the ordinary type.

The nature of my invention consists inredueing the body of n type, or that partof it contained between the 1eads,li'rom the form shown in Fig. 6 to 'that illustrated in Fig. 1 of the drawings, whereby I am enabled not lonly to place the printed lines ot script nearer together, (occupyingfabout two-thirds the space required for the ordinary seript,) but a saving of aboutonefthrdrofthetype-metal is'effected bymeans,otQmy-iniprovement. l

In the drawings, A'is the type face. B is what printers term the kern,77 whielroecurs only in extended letters. CV is the recessed front ot the type. D is :L -rounding or swellon the rear of said type, to'lit into' n corresponding reeessin the next succeeding type, 4as shown in Fig. 4.. E is that portion ot' the type whieli'I propose to strengthen -by casting the.

metal immediately under .the kern'. es shown in Fig. 2. F is t-he 'nick or index, and G the vbody ot' the type.

It willbe seen from the nbove that typecnst in accordance with my improvementthat is to say, smaller in body with the' usual size- VHCURATLO J. HEWFIT, Witnesses: A. NEILL,

CEAS. MOEEILL. 

